I take it from your omission that code which isn't accessed anywhere but
within src doesn't need any export macro?
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 6:47 AM, Jochen Eisinger <joc...@chromium.org>
wrote:
> Hey,
>
> we recently started to support component builds for almost all binaries.
> With this, it might happen that debug bots fail to link because they can't
> find certain symbols.
>
> Here is what to do:
>
> If the symbol is supposed to be visible to embedders, e.g., it's in
> include/v8.h, then add the V8_EXPORT macro.
>
> If the symbol is used by tests only, e.g., it's in src/, add the
> V8_EXPORT_PRIVATE (defined in src/globals.h) macro (or if it's in src/base/
> V8_BASE_EXPORT defined in src/base/base-export.h or in src/libplatform
> V8_PLATFORM_EXPORT defined in include/libplatform/libplatform-export.h)
>
> Annotate classes like this:
>
> class V8_EXPORT Foo {
> };
>
> or individual methods or functions like this
>
> V8_EXPORT bool DoStuff();
>
> For the public API (V8_EXPORT) we generally export everything. For test
> only stuff, we might wish to not export some base classes. In that
> situation, you have to annotate the base classes with NON_EXPORTED_BASE
> defined in src/base/compiler-specific.h like this:
>
> class V8_EXPORT_PRIVATE Foo : public NON_EXPORTED_BASE(Bar) {
> };
>
> If you annotated everything, but e.g. a symbol from src/base is still not
> found, it might be that the executable does not depend on v8_libbase (in
> this example) - you'll have to add the dependency in the BUILD.gn (and
> corresponding gyp file) then - but this should be rare, only if you add new
> binaries.
>
> best
> -jochen
>
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